Cryptid: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

After their mother's tragic and untimely death several years ago, the siblings Niklas and Lisa have been struggling to piece their lives back together. While Lisa chose to run away and find a new life elsewhere, Niklas has stayed behind to take care of their grieving father. When the horrific and seemingly supernatural death of his classmate coincides with the return of his long-lost sister, the high-school student's fragile sanity is quickly falling apart. As terror spreads among the students, Niklas is forced to deal with adolescent drama, mental illness and the rising suspicion of being a killer. At the same time, Lisa starts to have strange visions of her mother, blood rituals and the occult. As she digs deeper into her mother's mysterious death, an evil from the past reveals itself to feast on the chaos and misery of humankind...

Series details

• Title: Cryptid
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Swedish
• Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller
• Premiere date: 2020-10-30
• Final broadcast date listed: 2020-10-30
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Web channel listed by TVmaze: Viaplay
• Typical episode runtime: 21 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 6.3/10
• TVMaze ID: 41028
• IMDb ID: tt8290414
• TVDB ID: 389431

Cast and credited roles

• Maja Johanna Englander — Ester
• Julius Fleischanderl — Niklas
• Astrid Morberg — Lisa
• Johan Hedenberg — Axel
• Ignacio Deniece Nyman — Meral
• Christian Sundgren — Tim
• Beata Borelius — Tuva
• Oscar Zia — Sebastian
• Angelina Håkansson — Petra
• Arvin Kananian — Aron
• Jacques Karlberg — Emil
• Amanda Lindh — Armina

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2020-10-30; final listed air date 2020-10-30; episode order: 10.

Source and licence

Adapted from Cryptid on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.